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Word: gracefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Still his adviser, Doris Humphrey runs many of his rehearsals, did the choreography for two of the four works in his present repertory (the other two are his own). Says she: "He's my pride and joy. He has everything. He has bulk, a beautiful physique, strength, grace, control, the highest ideals, brains, an ear for music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Something a Man Can Do | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...Died. Grace Livingston Hill, 81, indefatigable, ' hugely successful author (79 novels; total sales: 4,000,000 copies) of pleasant, religion-flavored morality tales; while working on her 80th book; in Swarthmore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...musical-comedy producers that nobody should ever try anything that hadn't already been worked at least one, and preferably one hundred times. Audiences were confronted year after year, for instance, with elaborate opening scenes in European palaces, full of richly garbed extras extolling the beauty, glamour, and unparalleled grace of the as yet unseen princess. Finally, when the entire company was worked into a supreme ectasy of adulation, out waltzed the star, singing gaily and enticingly flitting among her admirers, while the audience gratefully cheered, thankful for a glimpse, at last, of America's sweetheart. Producers found they could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/28/1947 | See Source »

Gurley, who had previously won the mile, applied the coup de grace by bolting past the Eli anchorman on the back-stretch of the final lap, as spectators, officials and competitors surged onto the cinder track. If Yale had won this event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mikkolamen Top Yale at New Haven By 55-45 Count Before 1000 Fans | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...fielders wears gloves except the wicket keeper (catcher), whose gloves resemble a hockey player's gloves, with less padding. Batsmen wear leg pads something like a hockey goalie's, and thumb and finger guards. When cricket immortals like the late, great, bearded William Gilbert ("W.G.") Grace smote the ball, it practically tore a fielder's hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Not Like Croquet | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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